252 - A Streetcar Named Desire & Elysian Fields

Ritual: A Streetcar Named Desire

Cost: 1 minor charge.

Ritual Action: Board a form of public transport at the beginning of its route and, for the duration of the trip, perform an offensive action. Don't stop at any point. While doing so meditate on the target of the ritual, do not allow the image of them out of your mind for a single moment. Identify yourself by their name to anyone who asks.

Effect: You'll be thrown off at some point during the trip. The specific point at which this happens is when you're closest to whatever it is that your target desires most. Multiple castings with different forms of transport and routes can give you points to triangulate its position. So long as you don't mind being a pest and maybe getting arrested.

Ritual: Elysian Fields

Cost: 1 significant charge.

Ritual Action: Brew a concoction from ingredients including Tetley-brand tea, the vitreous fluid of a sheep, a paste ground from types of specific poisonous fungi native to three different continents and the blood of someone who has successfully performed this ritual. In the middle of a field, within view of a cemetery but no building higher than three stories sit cross legged facing away from the cemetery and drink the concoction at precisely noon on the fourth day of the month.

Effect: You fall into a coma. For the duration of that coma you're locked in a dream state hallucination consisting of whatever you believe the afterlife is supposed to look like. Unless your physical needs are attended to in the real world you're at risk of dying to exposure. Medical treatment can purge the substance from your system and end the effect but otherwise it is permanent.

An interesting side effect is that any hallucinatory dead person you speak to who has become a demon is aware of the interaction and can talk back. They can't see or experience what you do but otherwise you could hypothetically use this to carry on a conversation.